The Believers
ISBN: 9780670916122
London, England: Fig Tree/ Penguin Books Ltd., 2008. First UK Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Zoe Heller. "A comic, tragic, supremely entertaining novel about one family's struggles with the consolations of faith and the trials of doubt. When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves but, for the meantime, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new-found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Karla, an unhappily married social worker, is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again. In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what- if anything- they still believe in." (front flap) The topical, darkly comedic novel by Zoe Heller (b. 1965), the acclaimed Jewish-British author & journalist who has long lived in NYC. Disparate politics, religions & ethnicities clash & mesh in this familial saga. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket, first UK edition published the year preceding first American edition (2008), presumed first printing with no references to further printings on copyright page. On the title page, below her printed name which she has crossed out, Heller has hand-written her signature in bold black ink. A popular Heller collectible in its rarest original form, enriched with her autograph. Book in very fine condition with only a few tiny bumps at edges & corners of front, back cover & spine; otherwise substantially mint inside & out. Dust jacket very fine with only some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers, spine & flaps. Very Fine / Very Fine. [Item #4931]
Price: $60.00